Llast week, Bill Maher dedicated a portion of it Real time monologue to the news that OnlyFans banned pornography or, as the company put it, “sexually explicit conduct.” The paid subscription service, which is dominated by sex workers who have seen their incomes rise sharply during the pandemic, admitted they made the decision due to pressure from banks like Mastercard, which adopt stricter guidelines on October around the “seller[s] adult content. ”(Mastercard had received strong pressure from anti-sex fanatical organizations such as Exodus Cry and the National Center for Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), which regularly combine safe and legal pornography with sex trafficking).
Well, OnlyFans decided to reverse the decision this week and continue to allow pornography on their platform. The news was applauded by its “community of 130 million users and more than 2 million creators who have earned more than $ 5 billion on our platform,” according to OnlyFans.
Cue Maher on Friday Real time: “We’re done with good news … OnlyFans stays in the porn business,” the comic proclaimed. “That’s right. Last week I was on this site reporting that they were leaving the porn business; now they’re staying there because their fans wouldn’t accept it. Their fans went dried fruit“.
Then the kicker: “Boy, if millennials like something more than canceling patriarchy, it’s women who have sex for money. That’s the interesting thing. “
Therefore, in Maher’s mind, “women who have sex for money” are anti-feminist and a product of patriarchy. Women could not be sex workers of their own free will, because they enjoy doing them, or because they can earn hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of dollars from the comfort of home, for example, by filming sex with the her boyfriend. It seems so beautiful a good job if you can get it.
It is also strange given that Maher has requested the services of sex workers in the past (adult star Teanna Trump has repeatedly explained how, when she was 18 and Maher was 57, Maher paid her to have sex with him ) and came out with a number of others, including Karine Steffans, a popular video game and stripper who once said of him, “Bill wants someone who can argue, tell him the ghetto you are, how big your ass is and you’re an idiot. That’s why you never see him with a white girl or an intellectual.” (Steffans is black).
You know what? Maher’s employer attitude toward sex workers really makes perfect sense.